I was doing some research this morning for an upcoming job search
program. I went to the website for town where the program will be held
to get feel for the audience and to see if the program was published.
The website had a career section for job seekers (where they posted
their resumes) and a listing of open positions. Nice, everyone wins.
Being the curious person I am, I looked at some of the many resumes
on the site to see how they were formatted and was surprised to see that
they all contained the full addresses of the job seekers. Not good!
First of all, street addresses don’t need to be on resumes any more.
Worse, and maybe I’m just paranoid, but why put your address out there
for the world to see? Anyone could easily go to other social media sites
and if the security measures aren’t in place, see if you are on
vacation, away from home or whatever. Why open the door to that?
If you are considering posting your resume on an open site, think
twice about sharing your street address. Instead, share your LinkedIn
address. You’re safer that way.
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